Wicked Knight #2 by Diana A. Hicks

Author:Diana A. Hicks [Hicks, Diana A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hicks Media Group, Inc.
Published: 2023-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

We Can Be Happy Here

Donata

He buried his fingers in my hair and brought me in for a kiss. “Did we meet in some dream a long time ago?”

A part of me knew that telling him the truth all at once wasn’t a good idea. But I couldn’t stand the thought that Luca didn’t know who I was, that he didn’t know everything we’d shared over the past ten years. Sure, not all of it was roses and champagne, but we had each other.

“I met you when I was fifteen.” I exhaled. “You were teaching at Midtown High, an elite high school for members of the Society.”

He chuckled, but after a few beats when I didn’t back down, his smile faded. I had no way of knowing what was going through his head. For all I knew, his brain blocked my words or the absurd concept that Maxim and the niece of Don Salvatore met so long ago. Could he even entertain such a thing?

“You were fresh out of college. Six years older than me. Back then, you didn’t even see me. I was persistent.” I glanced down at my hands.

Maybe he didn’t need to remember all the things I did before we finally got together—the lies I told about him when he rejected me because I was too young, the stalking, or the time I tricked him into meeting me in the Hamptons. That had been the night Ava Conti was killed.

“The woman in your dreams, Ava. She was your fiancée. She was innocent like in your dreams. You searched for her killer for years. When you found him…” I stopped to get a better read on him. “He was your first kill.”

He lay so still next to me. For a moment, I thought he’d stopped breathing. I braced my hand on his bare chest. The drumming against my palm was the only clue that he’d heard what I’d said.

“I think that’s why you keep going back to that moment in time.” I brushed a strand of hair away from his face. “It was an important event in your life. That night, everything changed for you and me. It’s been eight years since then.”

“Were you there?” His gaze cut to me.

“At Nathan’s house? When you…” I cleared my throat. “No. But my friend Enzo told me everything. You gave him a letter to give to me. I made him tell me every single detail.”

Slowly, he sat up and let his legs fall down the side of the bed. With his wide back to me, it was as if he was shutting me out. But I had already started down this road. I couldn’t stop now.

“Three men were with you that night. At Nathan’s place. Enzo was one of them. Also, Rex and Santino. Do you see them in your dream?”

“How the fuck do you know all this?” He braced his arms on his knees and let his head hang. Every breath he took, his back expanded with the tiniest tremor.

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